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Posts from ‘June, 2010’

Going Deeper Underground

Below the sunny squares of Poland’s royal capital lies a shadowy world of legends and fantasy, music and cabaret… vodka and beer. Nick Hodge is your guide as we delve deep into the five best cellar joints in Krakow. Beelzebub comes in many guises and, according to local legend, the Dark One once lurked beneath [...]

Top Five: Modernista Marvels in Barcelona…

…not created by Gaudi. Although you might find it hard to believe, given the column inches dedicated to our Antoni, Modernisme in Barcelona was far from a one man show. The style was a joint effort by late 19th Century Catalonia’s finest minds to create an aesthetic unique to the region: a style of architecture [...]

Photo Story: It’s Oh So Quiet…

The cafes of Paris are where the intellectual, social and gastronomical life of this great city takes place. Politics are discussed, art criticised, love affairs formed, and – naturally – plenty of good food and drink is digested along the way. With a little help from the millions of tourists who descend on the City [...]

Photo Story: Portraits at Zhenski Pazar

The largest and busiest market in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia’s Zhenski Pazar (Women’s Market) is a chaotic centre of cheap commerce where traders vend fruit and veg, cheeses, cured meats, dried fruit and nuts, homemade halva and handcrafted ceramics, along with fake designer clothing, expired medicine and tourist tack (recently Syrian sheesha pipes have become [...]